The Australian Senate voted against an inquiry into the causes of the nation’s high excess mortality today. This is the third time the Senate has voted against investigating excess deaths, after rejecting two previous motions last year.
Australia has recorded more deaths than expected in the past several years, with some states experiencing up to 17% excess mortality. This trend is ongoing, with the latest reporting from the ABS estimating 12,377 excess deaths for the first three quarters of 2023, 9.9% above the expected baseline.
Australia’s peak actuarial body, the Actuaries Institute, attributes many of these excess deaths to Covid. This is contested, but even so, at least half of Australia’s excess mortality remains unexplained.
Earlier today, Senator Ralph Babet of the United Australia Party tabled a motion proposing that the issue of excess mortality in Australia be referred to a committee for an inquiry and report.
The Noes had it 35:30, with Labour, the Greens, the Jacqui Lambie Network and independent Lydia Thorpe all voting to reject the motion.
The Liberals, the Nationals, the Country Liberal Party, the United Australia Party, One Nation and independent David Pocock voted in favour of the motion.
View the full vote breakdown here.
Senator Babet has previously tabled two unsuccessful motions to generate inquiry into Australia’s excess deaths, both on March 23rd 2023 (see Hansard record here).
One motion proposed the formation of a dedicated committee garnered only four votes in favour (Ralph Babet, One Nation’s Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts, and Liberal Alex Antic, who crossed the floor). A second motion proposing a parliamentary debate on excess mortality was narrowly defeated 30:29.
Today’s motion differed in that it proposed that the matter of excess mortality be referred to the already existing Community Affairs References Committee for further investigation.
Labour Senator Katy Gallagher, who represents the Health portfolio in the Senate, stated prior to the vote:
The Government does not support this motion. The ABS [Australian Bureau of Statistics] is the definitive authority of mortality statistics and data in Australia and provides regular publications… This data is published online and available to everyone.
This is accurate. However, the ABS does not speculate as to why more Australians are dying of certain illnesses at greater or lesser rates.
Seeking an answer to this question, the Australian Medical Professionals Society initiated its own investigation last year into Australia’s excess mortality. Every federal politician was invited to attend a presentation in Canberra, and the inquiry’s findings were published in a book, Too Many Dead: An Inquiry into Australia’s Excess Mortality, which was also distributed to federal politicians.
AMPS Secretary Kara Thomas says of today’s vote:
It is devastating to see the Government again vote against finding out what is causing Australia’s sustained excess mortality, but we are glad to see the Coalition has been receptive to the AMPS Inquiry’s findings, and that it is interested in pursuing further investigation.
The AMPS book focuses particularly on the evidence for iatrogenesis (i.e., harms inflicted by Australia’s medical response to Covid) and failures in pharmacovigilance.
Additionally, in submissions to an inquiry into Terms of Reference for a Covid Royal Commission, experts including economists, legal advocates and mental health professionals highlighted the potential for harms to health arising from other Covid policies, including lockdowns, isolation, loss of employment, loss of autonomy and increased stress.
Speaking in support of the AMPS independent inquiry last year, Senator Babet stated: “We are seeing too many excess, unexplained deaths in our nation every month. This is a matter of life and death and should be our top priority.”
In 2020, the people in charge shut the country down to save lives. Every single Covid-related death was meticulously documented in regular reports produced by state and territory health departments, and announced by Premiers in regular press briefings. TV news stations ran ticker counts.
Yet for the thousands of Australians who have since died unexpectedly for unknown reasons, the people in charge have shown little concern or motivation to investigate.
This article was originally published on Dystopian Down Under, Rebekah Barnettt’s Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
As John Lennon once sang, “If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow”. Or in the lingua franca of 2023: “Go woke, go broke”.
Woke = sleepwalking into tyranny
I don’t see the woke wave abating.
A few people raising their voices and more people suddenly waking up to what’s going on around them is all good. But at best it’s a start.
Until all these people, basically the 21st century’s communists, are moved away from all the levers of power they’ve got their hands on; the universities, the media, the entertainment companies, the state bureaucracies and plenty others, we’ll continue to be fed a steady diet of lunacy in their efforts to demolish our society and reconstruct it in their dystopian vision
It’s the original communist playbook tweaked for the 21st century.
Agree, but I also believe that the emasculation of society is playing a key role. Until men stand up and be counted in the war against masculinity – ignoring the pathetic insults (male tears, fragility, insecurity, etc) used to close down conversation – then we’ll have a problem. Society needs masculinity to ensure a natural balance, and we must push back, stop their march, and start reversing the feminisation of the West.
Toxic femininity.
True feminists had historical struggles and had to push hard, rightly so to my mind. However in the West we’ve had equal rights in law for decades, so the grandstanding today is virtue signalling, mostly for irrelevant nonsense or imaginary boogieman. Yet female-dominated social media (thats everything except youtube) really got the bit between its teeth after #MeToo went mainstream and the 2016 Trump/Brexit disaster happened; a stark wake up call for power elites that required all hands to their various levers of power and control, and, clearly, very drastic counter measures.
Power elites must of thought we had all these people, deplorable people, voting for a tv character who says he grabs women by the pussy? Let me say for the record I like pussy as much as the next guy, probably more than the next guy in this day and age, but I’d never even conceived of the notion to grab a woman by the pussy? There just isn’t the purchase, in old fashioned women that is. Yet they adored him and flocked to his roadshows. We needed something big and galvanising, shock and awe, a modern day witch hunt, or wizard hunt to counter this toxic masculinity: The Hollywood wizard trials. A puritanical struggle session across the Anglosphere to recast man. And we’ll need some sacrificial totems, people like us but too brazen to defend or any one whos fallen out of favour…
The irony is most of the woke are women, who are naturally kinder and more compassionate, thinking the social justice perscribed is geuniely beneficial. But quite a few appear to embrace the extreme, the modern day hippy cult vibe (I won’t go so far as Charles Mansonesque ‘Family’ cult vibe but it sounds like its getting there) with dyed hair, unconcerned by appearance, consider themself anti-establishment (despite all their wants already law and echoed by billionaires and the establishment), and where hardened members have formed cult communes like Portland, Oregon’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone there were murders, violence, lots of free love and instances of rape and sexual abuse, all within a few blocks and 2 months, exactly what they purportedly rail against?
As Bill says you can’t cast out human nature, lots of humans will remain being selfish, covetous, stupid, greedy, violent, lazy etc. It even turns out some women still like getting grabbed, whether they admit it or not.
For those who like baseless theories it feels like the whole woke/social justice movement we have is predicated on such risible baloney it could only be a modern hybrid warfare operation from Academia. Academia’s contribution to the power elite designs for a Chinese style totalitarian control if you like, helping to break society down and atomise us (perhaps as an MK-Ultra candidate would have been, in order to reset their mind, morals and judgement), by churning out an army of pointless but time consuming cultural distractions, societal red herrings and puppets armed with laughably absurdist cynical theories. Presaging a great reset of Westerners social and cultural expectations, the role of the state and a reintroduction of neofeudalism based on digital…
Sent from Conspiracychat GPT.
“The irony is most of the woke are women, who are naturally kinder and more compassionate…”. This is what men want to believe – that women are nicer, better in some way, than men; that women can balance a part of you by giving you a reason to be better, nicer. I believe that nature intended this as part of its Yin and Yang. But the last couple of decades appears to have shown this assumption is a fallacy. Who’s more likely to stick their finger up to you in a car? More likely to push in at the bar? More likely to throw insults at you? Women. Without a shadow of a doubt. And when pulled up, they excuse themselves by shouting misogyny and shoving their victim card in your face.
So I’m not sure about that anymore. I still want to believe it, want to believe that their hyper-aggressive tendencies are born from the distortion of natural character by decades of ugly feminism. But I’m really not sure. To quote Abraham Lincoln “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”. Recent history appears to show that women fail this test in far greater numbers then men.
So… more people are beginning to see that Woke = Socialism, which not politics or ideology, but possession by evil.
Perhaps, as someone once said, we are approaching the end of the beginning…
Would have been share-able, had it not been for the ‘climate change’ quip at the end.
Excellent content otherwise.
’Socialism is resentment disguised as compassion, enforced by tyranny disguised as tolerance’.
Far from being thought of as a liberal leftie, Bill Maher is usually considered a snide rightie as his mis-characterization of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
The Little Red Book, for example, taught 400,000,000 illiterate peasants to read, write, argue, and vote.
It was well worth watching